AN UNUSUAL GILT-METAL-MOUNTED BLUE GLASS CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL GILT-METAL-MOUNTED BLUE GLASS CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of cushion form, the deep blue glass cover and box encased in European-style foliate, gilt-metal strapwork, the top of the cover with a slightly raised medallion decorated with a flower head with radiating pointed petals, the interior of the box and cover with gilt-metal liner and the gilt-metal base centered by a miniature gilt-metal flower head
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.

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Previously sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 1997, lot 290

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Gilt-metal embellishments on a glass vessel appear to be quite rare. A blue glass jar and cover with gilt-copper embellishments and mounts, dated to the Yongzheng period, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.), Luster of Autumn Water - Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Forbidden City Publishing House, 2005, no. 10. Unlike the present, and later, Qianlong period box with its European-influenced mounts, the mounts on the Palace jar are decorated with more typical Chinese-inspired decoration - an openwork design of phoenixes in flight amidst clouds around the sides. What appears to be a pedestal foot, however, is encased by joined vertical sheets of gilt-copper chased with wind-tossed waves rising from rolling waves strewn with precious objects. The entry states that the combination of glass and engraved gilt-copper is "reflected in the documents of the Imperial Workshops in the Yongzheng period".